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I posted a meme about a current event in a private group and it got flagged instantly
It was a simple image macro about the news last month, nothing graphic. I uploaded it to a private Discord server with about 20 people, all friends. Within 10 minutes, the platform's auto-moderation removed it for 'harmful misinformation'. I learned that even private spaces aren't safe from these broad filters. Has anyone found a reliable way to share this kind of content without getting nuked?
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the_ruby2d ago
Those filters protect people from lies that can cause real harm.
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iris_adams2d ago
Notice how this idea keeps popping up everywhere now, from social media to the news. It starts with stopping obvious lies, which seems good, but then the line for what counts as harmful keeps moving. Soon, people in charge are filtering out whole topics just for being messy or complicated. We end up with a safe, simple story instead of the real, difficult world. That scares me way more than reading a wild claim and having to think it through myself.
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